IoT is a huge industry, with 150 million smart appliances currently available for consumption. It is also a growing industry with a lot of potential and a bright future. However for the industry to reach its potential, security systems, network systems and management systems will need to be updated. This is especially necessary considering the high level of damage a hack could invoke upon an individual or community. As Network World point out an industry like the Internet of Things will always need to evolve to keep up with consumer needs. This may mean increasing machine to machine communication in all sphere’s of manufacturing, including highly intelligent cars.

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Once upon a time in the infancy of the internet—or — as short a time ago as just 4 or 5 years, job boards were “the” place to go for you to post your resume. Boards were also the best place to post a job where good people were hanging around reviewing them and waiting for the right job to come along. Today people are looking in other places and in many cases, finding jobs without going to the job boards at all. IoT jobs in particular simply don’t do well on the job board scenario.

Today there are dozens of places where you can find just the right person and you won’t have to work quite as hard. Job boards are still out there and to an extent they are still effective, but they are not AS effective because better things have replaced them.

First of all many job postings never quite make it to the job board. That means that many of the jobs that actually are available are never seen. Not to mention that many jobs posted on job boards are also posted in a dozen other places and may have been filled and not deleted from the job boards. In addition, consider the many advances in technology and how we are using them.

Networking sites allow for nearly live interaction between the job seeker and the company seeking new employees. Resumes may be placed in the cloud and skill sets verified so that companies may seek out the workers of their choice and verify some of their work history.

Networking and social media sites have about a 45%-50 % effectiveness rating today when it comes to finding jobs. Job boards, which used to boast a 30-40% rating, are now seeing about 10 percent effectiveness in the jobs attainment.

These same networking sites also give us the means to explore the companies for which the recruits or candidates will work. Networking and recruiting is changing the way that we attain jobs or new talent because:

· Your resume doesn’t fall into the job board black hole.

· You’re not wasting your time because you do see/address the decision makers for the company or the recruiters seeking out new candidates.

· By the time that the jobs make it to the jobs board, hundreds of people may have already applied but the same is not true for jobs you see on the social media sites.

Social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn are by and large replacing the job board sites and give us the means to interact in a live way, to verify information and to recruit people who seem to be a good fit for our open positions.

Job boards may be on the downhill slide but job sites or networking sites are providing some of the best ways for candidates to search out new jobs as well as for companies or recruiting agents to find new talent to fill those jobs.

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Bill McCabe Added to Top 50 List of Artificial Intelligence Experts

DENVER – June 12, 2017 – PRLog — Bill McCabe is proud to announce that he has been included in the

“FINE LIST OF 30 TOP WORLD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS TO FOLLOW IN 2017″ that was recently published by IPFC Online. Mr McCabe, renowned recruiter and CEO Of Softnet Search is well known for his insights into IoT and AI as well as Big Data. Mr McCabe is also well known in his space for matching the right client with the right job to the benefit of both entities.

Internet Of Things Recruiting has been part of the IoT recruiting landscape for years, recently branching out to include new services such as AI recruiting as well as Data Scientist recruiting. The company is expanding dramatically and the new services are a natural occurrence.

Mr McCabe commented ” AI and Data Science is a natural evolution of the IoT where Internet of Things Recruiting started. It is a source of great pride that we’ve been accepted in this arena after a vast amount of hard work and study to ensure that we had all of the knowledge and skill that we required to be able to effectively and effciently recruit for big data and data science as well as artificial intelligence.”

For more information about Internet of Things Recruiting you may visit us on the web at http://internetofthingsrecruiting.com or telephone Mr McCabe for a free 10 minute consultation at 303-337-7871

In the world of commercial cloud services, there’s no doubt that Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure are dominating the market. According to estimates from Deutsche Bank, Amazon’s AWS generates revenue of around $6 billion per year, with Microsoft trailing by one or two billion. Other industry insiders report similar figures.

Compare this to Oracle, a company where similar cloud offerings are responsible for revenue in the millions. Despite being so far behind, Oracle wants a bigger share of the cloud market, and CEO Mark Hurd has come out with fighting words. In a recent interview featured on USA Today, there were some choice sound bites that showed Oracle’s current feistiness. “They can say what they want, but our strategy and momentum are irrefutable. We are the fastest growing cloud company at scale.”

Although Oracle hasn’t made a huge impact with cloud services, their position as an important player in IT is undeniable. Throughout the past two decades, Oracle made the majority of their money through business software. Their model was simple – sell a software product at a premium, develop the software based on market feedback, and sell new licenses to continue the revenue stream. For businesses in the past, this was the status quo. Today, there are better solutions, and many of Orcale’s former clients are discovering them.

Software as a service (SaaS) allows for products that are more affordable, but that still deliver ongoing revenue for developers. Microsoft is one company that has moved almost completely towards SaaS, offering all of their core product suites, and even Microsoft Windows, as SaaS products. Microsoft and Amazon are continuously growing with SaaS products in the cloud, yet companies like HP, IBM, and Oracle, have all been struggling in recent years. Some tech observers even listed these companies amongst the ‘walking dead’ of the established IT mega corporations.

Oracle simply can’t afford to fail when it comes to the cloud. They’ve been on the back foot for too long now, and despite having an almost $200 billion market capitalization around the world, their revenue has been virtually stagnant for the past four years. With a number of recent acquisitions and growth in their NetSuite cloud business solution, Oracle thinks they can topple the market leaders.

Whether this is just bravado to remain relevant, or if Oracle will cause an upset in the relatively young cloud market, still remains to be seen.

You will never hear anyone say, “I hope my career stagnates this year.” Your IoT career is a chosen path and you want to be sure that you move forward in it.

The problem is that many of us are not entirely sure what to do to plan our career. We planned our education and we planned our employment, but for many of us, that’s as far as we got.

Why should you plan your career?

Think of your IoT career as sort of a lifelong road trip. Without a map you’re going to end up going somewhere, but realistically you’re probably not going to go anywhere worth being. Without good directions, a map or a gps, the trip isn’t going to end on a high note.

Having a career plan gives you a general goal and a set of directions that can help you to get there. The plan will make you take a closer look at the things you are doing and what they are doing for your career. It makes you think hard and commit to a given process. That process begins with assessing the past year and taking a hard look at where you’ve been.

Ask yourself the question “Where would I like to be in my IoTcareer by the end of next year?” “What kind of IoT jobs are out there and what should I be considering?” What would make you feel as though you were a success? How will you know if you’ve achieved your goal? By setting a benchmark or a point that serves as a goalpost.

Next, set your definition of how you are going to get there. IoT jobs are a unique type of employment and each job in IoT requires a unique set of skills and a unique methodology for moving forward in your career path. There are no cookie cutter solutions for making your IoT career move forward.

Plot a course. Define the steps that you need to take and the way in which you will accomplish the forward momentum for your career. Give yourself quarterly goals and objectives to meet that will help you to get where you want to be.

Get help in defining your career path. If you’re uncertain as to how to chart a path forward in your career, find someone who is doing well and has steadily moved forward and ask for their assistance.

Speak with anyone who has successfully navigated a career path like yours. Even older people who are getting ready to retire and have been successful in their career are great people to work with.

Make a choice about the best way to navigate your career path and then commit to it. Watch where you go and evaluate the results at the end of the quarter. If the goals have been met and the movement is positive, continue on that path and it they have not, reevaluate and chart a new path to take you where you want to be.

Just as everything in life changes, your plan will change too and in some cases, things will not go 100 percent according to the plan. The important thing is that you have a goal post and some guidelines with which to work. Those can be changed as necessary to give you a guide that will allow you to plot a more successful career.

Amazon Echo and other virtual devices are now part of the legal landscape. As of last week, police are seeking access to Amazon Echo information to see if the Amazon data has something that will help them with a murder case.

According to The Information the police and the attorneys involved in the case from Bentonville Arkansas have issued a warrant to Amazon asking them to hiand over any and all audio or records from Echo that belong to James Andrew Bates. Bates will go to trial for the murder of Victor Collins in 2017.

While Amazon has declined to give any of the recorded information from the Echo that it has on its servers, the company did give the account details and the account purchases from the account to the police. The police state that they could pull some data from the speaker but what they could get was unclear.

The Echo device is always on and can be awoken so police want information that may be stored on the device of an audio nature. According to Gabe Guttierez the police want to see what the device recordings may tell them. “We know Amazon has a copy because consumers can actually listen to all their Alexa requests and they can delete them, so that’s an option that’s available in a lot of these technologies–something that’s good for consumers to know,” stated privacy expert Bob Sullivan.

According to WHO TV the prosecutors say 32-year-old James Bates murdered his co-worker Victor Collins, who was found strangled in Bates’ hot tub.”

Bates, who called 9-1-1 when he found Collins, has pleaded not guilty to the crime and of course isn’t thrilled with the Amazon data being called into play. He had multiple other smart devices attached to his home at the time, including a water meter. The water meter showed that more than 140 gallons of water were used between 1 and 3 am when Collins was murdered.

Investigators state that he used that water to clean up a crime scene. The Echo and other devices like it are supposed to find answers for you by listening to what you tell it to do, but the police in Bentonville believe that it can help with the case by telling them what it heard.

“Did anybody think when this was being created that information you gave to Alexis or you gave to the amazon echo would be used outside your home, and then be used to have you arrested for a crime you didn’t commit?” asked Bates’ defense attorney Kim Weber.

Amazon told WHO TV.com — NBC News that it “will not release customer information without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us. Amazon objects to overbroad or otherwise inappropriate demands as a matter of course.”

“When we give companies data, the big problem is not only how will it be used today, but how could it be combined with other data in the future and then used against us,” remarked privacy expert Sullivan.

How it all plays out remains to be seen but based on the Echo and the hot water meter, it appears that your smart devices may be the best witnesses against you.

San Francisco based Cloudflare has had formed a significant presence in content delivery and internet security, especially considering the company is less than a decade old. To many industry observers, Cloudflare is a company that came at exactly the right time to capitalize on the growing number of cloud service and IoT operators.

Most recently, the company has announced their new Orbit security product, which will not only work with websites and other cloud services, but also with IoT devices.

IoT’s Impressive Growth is Not Slowing

Here are two critical stats that illustrate just how important the Internet of Things will be in 2017 and beyond.

Companies are expected to spend up to $5 Trillion on IoT devices and infrastructure between now and 2022. (BI Intelligence)

By 2022, there will be almost 23 billion IoT devices in use. This is up from roughly 7 billion that exist today. (BI Intelligence)

Security Continues to Be Critical

With such an explosion in growth, it’s no surprise that companies are taking security so seriously. With increasing numbers of devices connected to networks that are inherently vulnerable, industry innovators will need to continuously update their security solutions, just as we do on our corporate networks and desktop PCs today.

Cloudflare recently reported that they had seen an increase in DDoS and other attacks originating from compromised IoT devices. CCTV cameras were amongst the most exploited devices. Since discovering trends in attacks being sent from IoT devices, the company started working on a comprehensive IoT and cloud security solution. The result is Orbit. Orbit resides on the network layer in front of IoT devices.

Essentially, it’s between the internet and the things. The company worked closely with both vendors and innovators to ensure that their product was adaptable to the ever changing needs of IoT, which is a large part of the reason why Orbit sits on the edge of any protected network. It means that companies will be able to implement patches at an infrastructure level, and it won’t technically matter what kind of devices are on the other end.

Cloudflare has had its share of controversies in recent years, but their steps to help protect the Internet of Things could be a significant boost to their public image. Their scalable system has already received praise from companies like Qualcomm, Karamba Security, and Swift Sensors, and it will be interesting for any industry insider to see just how effective Cloudflare Orbit will be in the coming years.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has allowed for significant developments in the technology used in healthcare, manufacturing, and retail; and IoT has even changed the way that we use consumer devices. While technologies associated with IoT are often lauded for innovative features, there is less coverage given to the vulnerabilities and security risks associated with some devices.

In a world where technology is pervasive and continually increasing in complexity and capability, security should be at the forefront of the mind of anyone who is interested in either the IoT industry, or even specific devices.

IoT Cyber Attacks Are Increasing in Frequency

Recent reports have shown that cybercriminals have expanded their attacks from existing systems, and are now spending a significant amount of resource on attempting to compromise IoT devices. Vulnerable devices include connected televisions, washing machines and refrigerators, and even home CCTV systems and baby cameras. With the increasing expansion of IoT into all areas, it should be expected that cybercrime will increase in the coming years.

In 2017, it is estimated that there are around 20.35 billion connected IoT devices around the world. By 2025, that figure is expected to increase to over 75 billion. Growth is being driven by a high rate of innovation, consumer and industry demand, and partially due to a decreased unit cost for devices. As sensors and embedded chipsets become more affordable, it’s only natural that more innovators will look at making their existing devices more ‘connected’.

With Market Growth, Security Will Be Essential

By 2019, the global cost of cybercrime is expected to hit figures exceeding $2 trillion USD. New device manufacturers and developers may have no prior experience with data and internet security, so it will be critical that the right professionals are hired throughout the industry, to secure the next wave of devices. Thankfully, industry insiders do seem to be aware of the risks that exist in the market.

Almost half of all developers involved in IoT consider security their primary concern when developing and supporting devices. This is a promising statistic, especially considering that more than half of all consumers are concerned for privacy and security when dealing with devices that are connected to the internet.

There’s little question the IoT market will continue to grow in the coming years, allowing for embedded devices that were simply not possible in the past. With the ever present risk of security threats, both technology and product developers will need to take great care to not only develop devices that are innovative and functional, but that are secure by design and protected from cyber-attacks.

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IoT is often spoken of as a single and relatively unified technology. The reality is that while IoT as a concept is fairly straightforward and applicable to numerous industries and use cases, things start to look a bit different when you look closer at some specific examples.

For these comparisons, we’ll focus on agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial building IoT implementations.

Data is a Key Differentiator in Systems

A significant aspect of IoT is that data that is collected and used to make automated systems more efficient and useful. Consider an existing commercial office building that is moving to IoT sensors and systems for building automation. From installation, that building will already have numerous data sets that will help when designing a cost effective and efficient system. Building automation, electronic access, and other systems have existed for a number of years, so a commercial building operator will already know what they want to achieve with an IoT connected system.

Compare that to agriculture, where sensors and electronic devices have not been used in the past. Adapting to IoT sensors and devices will be completely new territory, however, agricultural operators do have the advantage that they often start with a data lite ͛approach. With fewer sensors and systems, they are able to identify the key benefits of their IoT systems and scale them up in a way that creates the most value.

If manufacturing is analyzed, there’s even more data to collect, and even if it is not immediately usable, the right analytics can enable significant improvements in efficiency and productivity. The problem that exists today is that the data that can come from factory sensors is so rich and so varied, that companies often don’t know what to do with it. In fact, according to an Industrial Internet Consortium report, only 1% of all factory data is used to create valuable insights.

IoT Changes Depending on the Application

Although this is a rather brief overview of some ways in which IoT can vary between industries and applications, the point should not be lost. IoT on its own is not a magic bullet for solving efficiency or productivity problems within an organization. The right design Is required, along with continued learning and adaption to make the most of any investment.

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DENVER – March 13, 2017 – PRLog — Futurists look toward tomorrow—they offer us a vision of what lies ahead at or what is in store for us.They predict new ways to do business and new ways to look at the world around us. Bill McCabe, renowned IoT recruiter, has been named to IBM’s list of Futurists and invited to speak and interact with the other panel members at IBM’s InterConnect March 19th-24th in Las Vegas Nevada.

IBM, well known for their promotion and expansion of systems such as Watson, is working tirelessly to enable global collaboration and innovation. IBM is a long time computing leader whosew Watson systems will now ally with with SoftBank to bring Watson to Japan.

Bill McCabe, IoT and IT security recruiter, is well known in IoT circles.This is not his first partnering with IBM as Bill is an often requested IoT guest blogger for IBM and additionally, Bill is an avid supporter and admirer of their technology.Bill has also been named to Twitters Top 50 IoT Influencers.

When questioned about the IBM InterConnect symposium, Bill stated “It gives me great pride to be included among the ranks of IBM’s futurists. I join some very distinguished company and look forward to our interaction and sharing common interests and discussions.”

You can reach Bill for comment or for questions at Bill@SoftNetSearch.com. If you’d like to interview Bill or to speak to him regarding retaining his search firm,–http://internetofthingsrecruiting.com, he may be reached by phone at 303-337-7871 . You may find Bill at IBM Interconnect in March or see him speak at IoT World May 16 – 18, 2017 at the
Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, USA